A few comments.
- First, read the article for full nuance.
- Second, it’s terrible.

That said, 89 workers died in meat processing in the US, about 15x the number in the EU after normalizing for number of workers.

Why? Is this question even asked in the plant? Regulators? https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1272958447986839554

2/ This is similar to the question of Musk reopening the plant earlier than laws allowed. Too much focus was on whether he could or should. No one bothered, that week, checking how it was done.

3/ Of course, some plants cannot be opened safely, due to the nature of the work, and others can.

But failing to ask the “how” means that the debate shifts to polarization, inefficacy, and we get the worst regardless of the choice, and end up with unsustainable positions.

4/ Too much focus on open/close alone, IMHO, and too little on “if close, how? if open, how?”

I don’t mean that “open/close” isn’t important; it is.

But focusing on that question alone without the “how” is suboptimal at best and dangerous at worst.